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Country Brief

Cabo Verde is made up of ten islands and eight islets, located in the Atlantic Ocean. Cabo Verde is particularly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts. Changes in seasonal, weather and rain patterns are already showing. Along with a depletion of the country’s scarce natural resources, climate variability in CaboVerde will increase leading to more storms, floods and droughts, etc. Despite the challenges, CaboVerde is an emerging nation with a strong and transformative development agenda. CaboVerde is firmly committed to a global low-carbon transformation. CaboVerde has laid the relevant groundwork to achieve energy-independence on 100% renewable sources, resilience to climate change, and work towards building ‘a truly green island state’. Cabo Verde strongly believes that its INDC represents a genuine contribution towards achieving the objective of the Convention to be implemented  from 2020 - 2030

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FIRST NDC
Yes
UPDATED FIRST NDC
Yes
DATE OF SUBMISSION
02 April 2021
NAPs SUBMITTED
No
LTS SUBMITTED
Not Submitted

2030 GHG emission Mitigation Target

Reduce energy demand by 20% by 2030
30% share of renewable energy penetration by 2025 (or 100% with international support)
Increase in energy demand to 3% per year from 2020 to 2030.
Reduce losses in energy distribution from about 25% in 2010 to less than 8% by 2030

Targeted Sectors

  • AFOLU
  • Energy & Efficiency
  • Transport
  • Waste

Adaptation Commitment

Improve energy efficiency and performance of buildings, street lights & appliances (labels)
Plan to build at least 1 landfill equipped with gas-to-energy by 2025 + stand-alone bioenergy solutions
Wastewater/sludge for energy production
Every citizen has safe access to a minimum of 40l potable water per day by 2030

Regulatory Framework or Action Plan

  • National Environmental Action Plan
  • National Renewable Energy Plan 2015
  • Low Carbon and Climate Resilient Development Strategy

Means of Implementation

Mitigation

N/A

Adaptation

N/A